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1. Grace (2021– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Drama following Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job.
Stars: John Simm, Richie Campbell, Brad Morrison, Laura Elphinstone
Votes: 7,107
2. My Policeman (2022)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
The arrival of Patrick into Marion and Tom's home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previously.
Director: Michael Grandage | Stars: Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache
Votes: 22,387
3. Quadrophenia (1979)
R | 120 min | Drama, Music
Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.
Director: Franc Roddam | Stars: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis, Mark Wingett
Votes: 20,886
4. Mona Lisa (1986)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane
Votes: 18,728 | Gross: $5.79M
5. Brighton Rock (1948)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams
Votes: 6,828 | Gross: $0.22M
6. Under Suspicion (1991)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Disgraced detective Tony fakes evidence in divorce cases, implicates wife in Stasio affair. Stasio and wife shot dead in hotel. Tony's ex-partner Frank investigates, suspects inheritance-seeking mistress Angeline and inconsistent Tony.
Director: Simon Moore | Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, Kenneth Cranham, Maggie O'Neill
Votes: 5,075 | Gross: $0.22M
7. Night Coppers (2022– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
10,000 revellers pack Brighton's clubs and pubs every weekend and as the sun goes down and the lights come up, the level of crime goes through the roof. This documentary series follows police on night patrol in the seaside town.
Votes: 56
8. The Damned (1962)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox
Votes: 4,017
9. Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes elsewhere.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison
Votes: 3,128
10. Jigsaw (1962)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 1,579
11. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 8,643
12. London to Brighton (2006)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Desperate to evade an angry pimp, a London prostitute and a young girl flee by train to Brighton after an appointment with a powerful client goes violently wrong.
Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Lorraine Stanley, Georgia Groome, Johnny Harris, Nathan Constance
Votes: 8,740
13. Right Here, Right Now (2023)
89 min | Documentary
In 2002 superstar DJ Fatboy Slim organises a free beach party for his hometown of Brighton. 40,000 ravers were expected, but a quarter of a million turn up. Right Here, Right Now is the real story behind dance music's most infamous gig.
Director: Jak Hutchcraft | Stars: Fatboy Slim, Nick Frost, Vernon Kay, Simon Pegg
Votes: 239
14. Urbanized (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
Director: Gary Hustwit | Stars: Amanda M. Burden, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, Jan Gehl
Votes: 2,304
15. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
PG | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick
Votes: 1,120
16. The Fruit Machine (1988)
R | 103 min | Drama
Two gay teenagers go on the run after witnessing a murder.
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Emile Charles, Tony Forsyth, Robert Stephens, Clare Higgins
Votes: 612
17. Schutzengel (2012)
130 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.
Director: Til Schweiger | Stars: Numan Acar, Volker Albers, Loyd Bateman, Gode Benedix
Votes: 4,366
18. Barracuda (2017)
TV-MA | 100 min | Drama, Music, Thriller
A strange woman comes to Texas to meet her half-sister and stake a claim to the family music legacy-one way or another.
Directors: Jason Cortlund, Julia Halperin | Stars: Allison Tolman, Sophie Reid, JoBeth Williams, Luis Bordonada
Votes: 759
19. The Rebel (2016– )
40 min | Comedy
A comedy series adapted from the comic-strip of the same name appearing in "The Oldie" magazine. Simon Callow stars as rebellious pensioner Henry Palmer.
Stars: Simon Callow, Bill Paterson, Anita Dobson, Anna Crilly
Votes: 146
20. The Brighton Strangler (1945)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, an actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: John Loder, June Duprez, Michael St. Angel, Miles Mander
Votes: 538
21. Palace of Fun (2016)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Romance
During a heat-wave in Brighton, a mysterious drifter comes between a rich brother and sister.
Director: Eadward Stocks | Stars: Andrew Mullan, Phoebe Naughton, Holly Shuttleworth, George Stocks
Votes: 164
22. Bank Holiday (1938)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the sea-side. Doreen Richards under the name Miss Fulham is off with friend Milly to a beauty ... See full summary »
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Williams, Rene Ray
Votes: 548
23. Brighton Story (1955)
22 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
100 years after his death in 1855, lieutenant-colonel John Eld, the third and last Master of Ceremonies (and known in his days as the 'King' of Brighton) returns for one day to his home ... See full summary »
Director: Pamela Bower | Star: Alec Clunes
Votes: 14
24. The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance
Paris is Burning. Under the iron fist of Robespierre, hundreds are executed, by the swift and bloodstained guillotine. Through these acts of injustice a new heroism is born - the League of The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott, James Mason
Votes: 348
25. Brighton (2013)
27 min | Short, Drama, Family
A man's journey to the southern coast of England becomes complicated when a tourist's dangerous promise changes both of their lives.
Director: Pierre Stefanos | Stars: Robbie Capaldi, Lennard Sillevis, Henry Temple, Tom Gualtieri
Votes: 8
26. A Time to Kill (1955)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama
In the grounds of a dark, deserted mansion, a blackmailer collects money from his victim. Meanwhile, Peter (John Horsley, THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN), chemist and philanderer, ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Jack Watling, Rona Anderson, John Horsley, Russell Napier
Votes: 102
27. Rita Coolidge: All Time High (1983 Music Video)
3 min | Action, Adventure, Music
Video promo for "All Time High" by Rita Coolidge, the theme song for the James Bond film Octopussy.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Rita Coolidge, Kabir Bedi, Tina Hudson, Desmond Llewelyn
Votes: 17
28. The Girl on the Pier (1953)
65 min | Crime
A London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pier for blackmail and murder.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes
Votes: 125
29. The Breaker (1974)
55 min | Documentary
A documentary shedding light on Morant the drover, horse-breaker, bush poet and rebel, while also detailing the Boer War and the court-martial of Morant, Peter Handcock and George Ramsdale Witton.
Director: Frank Shields | Stars: Don Davis, Dora Graham, Patrick Picton
Votes: 21
30. Pink String and Sealing Wax (1949 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Tv version of the 1945 film: The romantic son of a Brighton pharmacist is drawn into a murder plot involving the harassed wife of a pub owner.
Stars: Margaret Barton, Bruce Belfrage, John Benson, Barbara Everest
31. The Year My Voice Broke: A Look Back Through 20 Years (2008 Video)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Stars: John Duigan, Loene Carmen, Graeme Blundell, Judi Farr
35. The Booth Museum (2019)
8 min | Documentary, Short
A homage to a quirky Victorian folly, tracing The Booth Museum from its gory foundation to its 21st status as a nexus for the social, scientific and artistic communities of Brighton and beyond.
Director: Nigel Chaloner
36. The Soft Parade: Silent to the Dark (2001 Music Video)
9 min | Music
Star: The Electric Soft Parade
37.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
(1993)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Poirot vacations in Brighton to boost his health, the beautiful pearl necklace of a theatre actress staying at his hotel is mysteriously stolen.
Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,338
38.
There's Something About Movies (2019–2021)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2019)
Comedy, Game-Show
The host, comedian Alan Carr, welcomes team captains, comedian Micky Flanagan and actor Michael Sheen, and panelists, actor Rob Delaney and Hollywood star Jason Isaacs, and actress Mandeep Dhillon and comedian Katherine Ryan.
Stars: Alan Carr, Micky Flanagan, Michael Sheen, Rob Delaney
Votes: 12
39.
Shopping with Keith Lemon (2019– )
Episode:
Big Narstie & Kate Nash
(2019)
Comedy, Talk-Show
Keith accompanies grime artist Big Narstie as he shops for a new sofa and goes to Brighton searching for pants with singer and actress Kate Nash.
Stars: Leigh Francis, Big Narstie, Kate Nash
40.
Burgerimies Euroopassa (2020– )
Episode:
Vanha iloinen Englanti!
(2020)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Petri Mäkitalo | Stars: Akseli Herlevi, Ossi Lahtinen
41.
Vanity Fair (1998)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(1998)
TV-PG | 53 min | Drama, Romance
Becky and Rowdon have been disinherited by Miss Crawley. George and Amelia marry, though soon George?s eyes begin to stray towards Becky. But before anything can get straightened out, the army is called to fight against Napoleon.
Director: Marc Munden | Stars: Natasha Little, Nathaniel Parker, Miriam Margolyes, Janine Duvitski
Votes: 25
42.
Dating No Filter (2021–2022)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2021)
Comedy
It's a rollercoaster of emotions as singletons Lovy and Dennis head to Brighton Pier for their first date. Will there be butterflies in their stomachs, or is that just from taking one too many loop the loops?
Directors: Kristian Dooley, Zoe Millard, Tommy Forbes | Stars: Daisy May Cooper, Joel Dommett, Rosie Jones, Tom Lucy
43.
Grace (2021– )
Episode:
Dead Man's Footsteps
(2022)
TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A sinister inquiry into skeletal remains found in a Brighton storm drain takes Grace down a labyrinthine trail through the past, but it's not only on the professional front that he is chasing ghosts.
Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: John Simm, Craig Parkinson, James D'Arcy, Zoë Tapper
Votes: 395
44.
Susan Calman's Grand Week by the Sea (2021–2023)
Episode:
Brighton
(2021)
44 min | Documentary
Susan's seaside tour stops off in Brighton on the south coast, the resort first made famous by King George IV, but today, it's as famous for its quirky shops.
Directors: Tony McKee, Jenny Macleod | Stars: Susan Calman, Zoe Lyons
Votes: 10
45.
The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door (2014–2021)
Episode:
Episode #7.7
(2020)
45 min | Documentary
The relationship between two couples in Brighton took a dramatic turn when one couple's son joined the other family's firm. When a man and his dangerous dog move in next door a grandmother's life is left hanging in the balance.
Directors: Charlie Kinross, Michael Nuvoletta | Star: Suzanne Toase
46.
Antiques Road Trip (2010– )
Episode:
Episode #23.8
(2021)
44 min | Reality-TV
The 3rd leg of their trip takes James and Irita to East Sussex and Hampshire. On the way James gets up close and personal with some octogenarian sea turtles in Brighton. Irita learns about a Victorian philanthropist at Portsmouth Docks.
Directors: Selina Chan, Andrew Dedman, Sam Hughes, Harriet Leaf, Strahila Royachka | Stars: Tim Wonnacott, James Braxton, Irita Marriott
Votes: 5
47.
Cold Case Killers (2021– )
Episode:
The Babes in the Wood Murders
(2021)
45 min | Documentary, Crime
After two young girls were killed, a mishandled prosecution ended in a murderer walking free until a later, more dedicated investigation brought him to justice.
Director: John-Pierre Newman | Stars: Melanie Kilburn, Graham Bartlett
Votes: 15
48.
Heritage Rescue (2021– )
Episode:
Brighton Pavillion
(2021)
44 min | Reality-TV
The Brighton Pavilion is a magnificent and quirky building that was once a seaside retreat for King George IV. Can this crumbling landmark be saved?
Director: Alistair Smith | Star: Nick Knowles
49.
Secrets of the Royal Palaces (2021– )
Episode:
Brighton Pavilion
(2022)
43 min | Documentary, History
Brighton's Royal Pavilion was built by Prince Regent, George IV in 1787. He took a small beach house and turned it into a flamboyant multi-domino-Saracenic wonder palace.
Directors: Peter Chinn, Annabelle Draper, Simon Newton, Gareth Prescott | Star: Samantha Bond
50.
The Flatshare (2022)
Episode:
First Date
(2022)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tiffany and Leon start to get close after Leon's meddling teenage patient tricks them into taking a trip to Brighton together. But shocking news changes everything.
Director: Chloe Wicks | Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, Anthony Welsh, Bart Edwards, Jonah Hauer-King
Votes: 75